No wonder Trump wants him in his administration.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s brags to friends that star reporter Olivia Nuzzi had sent him intimate photos was what led the scandal to explode into the open, the Daily Beast can reveal. The 70-year-old scion’s boasts became known to the 31-year-old New York magazine correspondent’s boss—who confronted her over the photos.

Nuzzi repeatedly denied an affair to David Haskell, New York’s editor in chief, but eventually came clean. Nuzzi has now been suspended, and is being investigated over her journalistic ethics by an outside party.

Puck News reported Friday night that Nuzzi allegedly sent “demure” nudes of herself to RFK Jr. during their “sexting” affair.

News of the pairing sent shockwaves across the media industry after Status reporter Oliver Darcy revealed Nuzzi’s romantic relationship with Kennedy. The report recounted their monthslong affair and how Nuzzi failed to disclose the boundary-crossing dynamic to her editors.

Nuzzi admitted to the relationship in a statement to The Daily Beast and acknowledged it crossed journalistic red-lines, even if it was never physical. Nuzzi had spoken about Kennedy repeatedly throughout 2024, including reporting on his attempts to get Secret Service protection and describing the presidential race as a “three-man race” in March.

Kennedy, who has allegedly cheated on multiple past lovers, has been married to Curb Your Enthusiasm star Cheryl Hines since 2014. Nuzzi was engaged to Politico chief Washington correspondent Ryan Lizza, who revealed their separation in a note to Politico readers on Friday afternoon. The Kennedy news did not appear in the outlet’s morning edition of Playbook, which Lizza co-writes.

“Because of my connection to this story through my ex-fiancée, my editors and I have agreed that I won't be involved in any coverage of Kennedy in Playbook or elsewhere at POLITICO,” he said in a statement. The two broke up last month.

The magazine said on Thursday Nuzzi was “engaged in a personal relationship with a former subject relevant to the 2024 campaign while she was reporting on the campaign,” which violated the publication’s editorial standards. The magazine told readers an internal review of her 2024 work found “no inaccuracies or bias,” though it still placed her on leave pending a third-party review.

In his revealing 2015 biography RFK Jr.: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Dark Side of the Dream, author Jerry Oppenheimer wrote of his subject: “Any woman who gets involved with Bobby does so with her eyes open, or their brains lopped off. Any woman who thinks they’re going to change Bobby is misguided and purposefully ignorant.”

Oppenheimer, a close friend of Kennedy who attended his Massachusetts wedding to Hines, pulled no punches, and wrote that a guest at the nuptials “was mystified as to why Hines married Bob, since his history as a womanizer had become so public and was intertwined in scandal.”

The author added: “Women have to understand what they’re getting into when they’re with him. You can hate it, you can make excuses for it, you can do whatever you want to do, it doesn’t change the fact that he has a long history of doing certain things.”

Even before the nuptials, Kennedy was accused of cheating due this relationship with socialite Chelsea Chapman Kirwan.

Kennedy has six children. His first wife was Emily Ruth Black. His second, Mary Richardson, died by suicide in 2012. It was reported that she kept a journal listing all of his dalliances with other women.

Oppenheimer’s book relates how Hines’s Curb creator and star Larry David reportedly told Kennedy: “Nothing you do will ever rattle her.”

Prophetic words, indeed. Now it remains to be seen how Hines will react amid the latest report of Kennedy cheating.

And this is why…

WHAT WOMEN WANT

Donald Trump, who has taken credit for abolishing women’s constitutional right to abortion with the overturning of Roe v. Wade, vowed in a lengthy Truth Social post on Friday night to “PROTECT WOMEN AT A LEVEL NEVER SEEN BEFORE”.

“WOMEN ARE POORER THAN THEY WERE FOUR YEARS AGO, ARE LESS HEALTHY THAN THEY WERE FOUR YEARS AGO, ARE LESS SAFE ON THE STREETS THAN THEY WERE FOUR YEARS AGO, ARE MORE DEPRESSED AND UNHAPPY THAN THEY WERE FOUR YEARS AGO, AND ARE LESS OPTIMISTIC AND CONFIDENT IN THE FUTURE THAN THEY WERE FOUR YEARS AGO!,” he wrote on Truth Social, before saying that he will “FIX ALL OF THAT, AND FAST.”

“WOMEN WILL BE HAPPY, HEALTHY, CONFIDENT AND FREE!” he added.

He went on speak directly to female voters, saying “YOU WILL NO LONGER BE THINKING ABOUT ABORTION, BECAUSE IT IS NOW WHERE IT ALWAYS HAD TO BE, WITH THE STATES, AND A VOTE OF THE PEOPLE.”

“I WILL PROTECT WOMEN AT A LEVEL NEVER SEEN BEFORE. THEY WILL FINALLY BE HEALTHY, HOPEFUL, SAFE, AND SECURE. THEIR LIVES WILL BE HAPPY, BEAUTIFUL, AND GREAT AGAIN!” he concluded.